Sega released a new five minutes trailer for the upcoming PSP yakuza ba game named Kurohyou: Ryu Ga Gotoku Shinshou (Black Panther: Like a Dragon New Chapter), slated for release in Japan on September the 22nd.
The trailer, voiced by Takaya Kuroda (voice actor of Kazuma Kiryu), shows a long sequence of the game's cutscenes, drawn with an art style very similar to that featured in Metal Gear Portable Ops.
It outlines the backstory of the main character, Tatsuya Ukyou, grown in the wild street of Kamurocho knowing nothing but violence. His life is changed forever when he kills an high ranking member of one of the families of the Tojo clan. From then on his only way to continue living is as a fighter in the underground arena that appeared in all the previous Yakuza games.
At the end of the trailer there are quite a few in-game combat sequences, that display the usual brutal moves that the series got us used to, exploration sequences showing areas of Kamurocho that will look very familiar to the ones that played the previous games.
It also shows some of the "Hostess" gameplay (the part that was partially cut from the western version of Yakuza 3), that will retain a strong presence in the PSP chapter. A quite peculiar detail is that Mika Tsuchiya, one of the hostesses of the Flawless club in Okinawa during Yakuza 3, apparently moved to Kamurocho, and will make an star in this new game.
Also, the club in which Tatsuya goes to have fun seems to be Marietta, which is the one that the player gets to run during a quest in Yakuza 2 (unless Sega just recycled the graphics assets, that are obviously quite compatible between a PS2 game and a PSP one).
You can see the new trailer below. I have to say I am pretty excited about this new chapter of the series, even if I still have mixed feelings about the main character, that as of now doesn't seem to have the brooding charisma of Kazuma Kiryu. Let us hope to see it released in the west before the next geological era, and most definitely let's hope it'll be uncut this time around.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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Awesome, one good reason to clear the dust off my psp but I'm expecting Sega West to fcuk this up. I seriously loled at their Iron man 3, as expected it failed hard yet at Sega's NA blog, they have blog posts all around it that suggests the marketing they put into this fail. I'm still eagerly waiting for any remarks from Ruby's in regards to the pre-order DLC. Not because I give a shit about it (let's be honest the DLC isn't that great and doesn't add much replay value) and they already cut shit out of the game anyway so this tiny DLC doesn't mean anything ..... but because this is another thing that points at Ruby/Aaron lying his ass off, since I recall him saying it be available on PSN for everybody in April or early May. Seriously if your unsure don't fcuking mention it.
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